Funerals

I've been to two in the past four months.

Ruby the the beautiful little four year old taken away suddenly by a brain tumour.

And now Alejandro.

At both, the terrible sight of parents mourning a lost child.

The photo exhibition of Alejandro really hit me hard. Huge prints and projections of the beautiful guy with the beautiful hair. My head is full of the images still. And of his brother, standing there at the graveside, dark glasses and wearing Alejandro's trademark black trilby.

There was also a whole political dimension to his funeral.
His dad, Mauricio Funes, is the FMLN presidential candidate for 2009, and widely regarded as the first realistic chance that the FMLN has had. Alejandro had been planning to come back to El Salvador in June 2008 to work on his dad's electoral campaign (when he would have graduated from his photography and film degree).